The roster of Northern California bubbly houses with open tasting rooms is small enough that you could easily visit them all. From Domaine Chandon to Schramsberg, here’s your guide to trying all things sparkling wine.

There’s something special about California sparkling wine. Here are our top stops for bubbles in Napa & Sonoma

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Overview

The roster of Northern California bubbly houses with open tasting rooms is small enough that you could easily visit them all. There are many others — Ram’s Gate, Artesa and Inman Family, for example — who contract for small amounts of sparkling wine to be made at other facilities. They’re great wines, but visiting those wineries doesn’t offer the full experience of a working sparkling-wine production facility. One of the joys of visiting these dedicated Champagne-method sparkling producers is getting a glimpse at the fascinating production process. This is an instance where you’d be wise to opt for a tour.

Sparkling wine tastes good at any time of day. But one of Schramsberg’s unique advantages is that it opens to visitors at 9:30 a.m. — making it an ideal first stop in a day of Napa Valley wine tasting that will almost certainly be dominated by rich, full-bodied red wine. I can’t think of a better way to wake up.Read More

Though Iron Horse Vineyards — operated today by Joy Sterling, whose parents founded it in the 1970s — produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay as still wines, it’s best known as a sparkling wine house. And you'd be wise to focus on the bubbles while you're visiting, because it's what Iron Horse does best.Read More